http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/81181/champion-hansen-sold-to-south-korea
I’m a bit sorry for Dr. Hansen…
He will be very well-cared for in South Korea. I’ve seen pics and stories about other studs who’ve gone to that country; the horses look fantastic and they are much loved by their caretakers.
Coolmore must have been offered a fortune, considering they sold without even waiting to see what the first crop yields. Of course anyone with a top mare would probably prefer to go right to Tapit, who is proven.
I wasn’t feeling sorry for the horse, really. Just sorry for Dr. Hansen who didn’t think about the possibility that his homebred would be sold abroad, where he couldn’t keep as much of an eye on him…
Wow, that didn’t take long!
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Coolmore must have been offered a fortune, considering they sold without even waiting to see what the first crop yields. Of course anyone with a top mare would probably prefer to go right to Tapit, who is proven.[/QUOTE]
Tapit is a top level sire, current stud fee $125,000. Hansen is a lower level prospect, whose stud fee was 1/10th of that. Even though they are related, they would have attracted totally different types of mares. There wasn’t any overlap between them.
I’m still a big Hansen fan, even if he can’t do routes. The horse has gusto.
Say, are greys that have almost always been really light colored safer from (hate to even say the word) melanoma, as they don’t have lots of melanin to shed?
The South Korean stud book has a very cool website:
http://studbook.kra.co.kr/eng/main.jsp
You can look up everything about the horse - see their photos, who they were bred to, their registered foals, all free.
Running Stag was sent to Korea in 2009 and dead by 2011. Not to say that’s normal.
